Uplifting Quotes - Page 24

• Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.42, David C Cook

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• Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Space, Grace

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.10, Psychology Press

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• We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, May, Littles

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Voyage of the Beagle: the Evolution”, p.224, VM eBooks

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• By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

  William C. Bryant

  Memorial Day, Blood, Land

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

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• Your silent tents of green
  We deck with fragrant flowers;
  Yours has the suffering been,
  The memory shall be ours.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Memorial Day, Memories, Flower

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1074, Delphi Classics

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• Spirit, that made those heroes dare
  To die, and leave their children free,
  Bid Time and Nature gently spare
  The shaft we raise to them and thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memorial Day, Children, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.521, Harvard University Press

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• According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

  Andre Sainte-Lague

  Inspirational, Success, Body Weight

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• They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Memorial Day, Names, Honor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.

  Will Carleton

  Beautiful, Memorial Day, Brother

  Will Carleton (1875). “Farm Legends”, p.87, Belford Bros.

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• Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

  Richard Hovey

  Memorial Day, Cheer, Rose

  Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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• The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Death, Memorial Day, Military

  Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”

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• The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

  Jim Wallis

  Leader, Political, Helping

  Jim Wallis (2006). “God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it”, p.5, Lion Books

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  A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Imagination, Understanding

  Sir Isaac Newton (1950). “Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan”

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• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  Gary Hamel

  Accomplishment, Purpose, Individual

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• Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

  Robert Motherwell

  Beauty, Song, Dark

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• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  Ian Mcewan

  Successful, Important, Novelists

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• We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lying, Opportunity, Choices

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• If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

  Anne Lamott

  Ocean, Blessing, Sky

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• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Wisdom, Nature, Fabric Of Life

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Memorial Day, Native American

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• All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

  C. S. Lewis

  Angel, Heart, Blood

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Poems”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  William James

  Success, Taken, Character

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

  Tom Hooper

  Kings, New York, Laughter

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